Literary Activism: Perspectives

On Literary Activism

A Brief Background to the Symposium and Some Acknowledgements

LAETITIA ZECCHINI
Translation as Literary Activism: On Invisibility and Exposure, Arun Kolatkar and the Little Magazine ‘Conspiracy’

DEREK ATTRIDGE
The Critic as Lover: Literary Activism and the Academy

DAVID GRAHAM
‘Market Activism’: A Publisher’s Perspective

PETER D. MCDONALD
‘What about Criticism?’ Blanchot’s Giant-Windmill

SAIKAT MAJUMDAR
The Amatory Activist

TIM PARKS
Globalisation, Literary Activism and the Death of Critical Discourse

ROSINKA CHAUDHURI
The Practice of Literature: The Calcutta Context as a Guide to Literary Activism

DUBRAVKA UGREŠIĆ
Transnational vs. National Literature

AMIT CHAUDHURI
The Piazza and the Car Park: Literary Activism and the Mehrotra Campaign

JAMIE MCKENDRICK
Forms of Fidelity: Poetry Translation as Literary Activism

SWAPAN CHAKRAVORTY
Literary Surrogacy and Literary Activism: Instances from Bengal

Epilogue – JON COOK
Literary Activism: Where Now, What Next?

Appendix I
An Exchange of Emails

Appendix II - TIM PARKS
How Could You Like That Book?

Appendix III - TIM PARKS
A Novel Kind of Conformity

Notes on Contributors